Karakia Horohoro Tapu. (to Take off Extra Tapu.)

This charm was used to remove the tapu from those who had been engaged in the building of a house or canoe, or burying or exhuming the dead, or any other tapu undertaking. The priest would splash water over the subjects while chanting the following:

"Te wheriko, te tapu e,
Haere i tua, haere i waho.
Haere i te wai-kopatapata e rere nei,
Kia hoki mai ai ko te wai-mahuru.
Korou noa,
Korou ora.